LITR 150

                I’m very happy to be done with The Heroin Diaries. It was a good book for being an auto-biography, but as I’ve said before, they don’t interest me very much. I did like that it showed the truth behind the fame in the 80’s and even sometimes now in the 2000’s. Nikki said throughout the book, he didn’t like the fame as much as he thought he wanted it. Sure, he enjoyed the money, the drugs, and the girls, but he wasn’t able to do what he wanted to do. I think that’s what also started with the drugs. If he didn’t become famous, there’s a good chance that he wouldn’t have become as bad of a druggie that he was. He could’ve made Nona and Tom proud like he always wanted to do. “I hope she can’t see me now ‘cause who I turned out to be would break her heart.” (Page 364).                 I was surprised to read so much detail...

                Getting farther in this book, it gets easier to read. Most of his diary entries don’t sound exactly the same as it did in the beginning. They all sounded the same because when he was high, he did basically the same thing every time. The way he describes his addiction can make you feel like you’re going through it yourself. For never taking drugs in my life, it makes me not want to take drugs even more. The feeling of knowing what he’s going through is the same when he describes what happened going through his withdrawal.                 I like the fact that he decided to try to quit heroin before they went on tour. I would think that the way he wanted to do it would be harder though. “I’m gonna go to the clinic in Burbank tomorrow and register for a30-day program but I’m only gonna do it for three or four days then j...

                I tend to not read books like The Heroin Diaries. I prefer to read books that are more fiction. I find it hard to read autobiographies. They don’t paint a picture in my head and in return I can’t remember what I just read. With The Heroin Diaries, it’s just interesting enough that I can stand to read it. It does take me longer, but Nikki Sixx was smart to journal everything in his drug abuse stage of life. Most people would rather pretend that the bad time in their life didn’t happen. He embraces it and helps with basically telling people why they shouldn’t do drugs. I really like that when something doesn’t make complete sense, either he or someone who knew him back then will help clarify. Even if it’s something as little as not knowing the whole story.                 One part that really stuck out at me was when h...

                Finishing the first book of Death Note, I wish I had the second book to keep reading about Light’s and L’s battle. Their minds are so similar that it makes the book that much more enjoyable to read.                 When Light tried to kill Naomi when he thought she was Shoko, it shows how reliant he is on the Death Note. He starts to freak out when she doesn’t try to commit suicide and that typically doesn’t happen to him. He’s typically very suave and knows every step of his plan 3 steps before they happen. However, he’s smart enough to figure out that she gave him a fake name by thinking about it. “What’s so funny about her name-? It’s an alias!!” (Pages 310-311) His first thought about using force to learn her real name was out of character. He usually uses the Death Note to do all his dirty work and you would thi...

                These next few chapters of Death Note have had me on the edge of my seat. Finding out all the different ways Light can kill people is pretty interesting. I like how he can tell people what to do for the most part before they die. Not that I’m condoning killing people, but it’d be cool to test and see how far he can make people go and if what he writes would really happen. With the bus-jacker, he really tested his limits. He was able to see everything work out word for word what he wrote in the Death Note. The suicide notes he’s been writing has been almost a big game for him to mess with L. Over the series of 3 notes making them say “L do you know Gods of Death love apples?” At first, I didn’t understand that he was using the first word of every line to make a secret note just for L. Now, it makes perfect sense and is almost comical the way he messes with him.     ...